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Contains plate.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations on the structure of the eyes of birds'

Read 26 March 1795

Reference number
L&P/10/109
Earliest possible date
1795
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
14 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Observations on the structure of the eyes of birds' by Pierce Smith, 1795, L&P/10/109, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_109/paper-observations-on-the-structure-of-the-eyes-of-birds-by-pierce-smith, accessed on 09 February 2025

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